Fourth to henry rohrer and jacob fetter



(N-o Model.)

C.. A. INGLIS.

ROAD GUIDE. No. 270,223. Patented Jan. 9,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

CHARLES A. INGLIS, OF LANCASTER,

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE` FOURTH TO HENRY ROHRER AND JACOB FETTER, OF SAME PLACE.

ROAD-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,223, dated January 9, 1883.

Application filed August 14, 1882. (No'model.) l

Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usei'ul Road-Guide, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in road-guides,in which the roads are indicated by particular colors or shapes of objects for showing the places to which certain roads lead.

It is well known that the ordinary guideboards at the intersection of roads frequently get twisted out of place and thereby become useless, and thatprivate or byroadsnotdeemed sufciently important to mark mislead /travelers. i

The object of my improvement is to over- I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a View of a road-guide at thein tersection ot' roads, and Figs. 2 and 3 are views ot' one ot' the intermediate road-guides.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

The guide-board A for the intersection of Y roads can be" made of any-suitable material,

place to which it directs painted upon it, a

colored ball or other ligure, C, and a mark, m,

At a short'distance beyond the main guide-4 I board Aou the road is an upright with a small auxiliary guide, D, the shape and color ofthe 4o auxiliary guidesiindioatin g the direction shown on the main guide-board A. At such distances A along the road, particularly at points just beyoud those atwhich small or private roads lead off the same, auxiliary guides-D are erected to guide the traveler.

The directions on the pla-te P and the mark m are painted withluminous paint, in order to render them visible at night. If preferable,

shapes in luminous paint can be used alone; 5o `but I prefer the colors in combination with the ishapes as being most easily seen during the day.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A guide-board apparatus, consisting of the combination of a guideboard, A, having a ,suitable shape, object, or color, C, for each road, `and directing-plate P, with the auxiliary guides D, correspondingin shape and color to 6o the object C, substantially as shown and de- 

